For me this is the perfect type of vlog for photography. Out on the shoot firstly going through your thought processes then back home showing us how you get the final results. Also the fact you don't go into too much detail with the editing just what you want to change and what you did but without showing absolutely everything. That can be a bit laborious. So all in all Dave a great format and as always I love your editing style. The final images were all excellent. The one with the berry shows what a keen eye you have to even see the possibilities of a photo 👍
I declare you the highest of youtube and photography royalty, not only are you an awesome photographer, you're a great no nonsense say it as it is bloke (the world needs more like you) and to top that off, no mood and larrning killing adverts of your channel, top work, thank you for sharing your great content with us all 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Loving the new approach - no ads and no sponsors is also a plus. Thanks for taking us through the processing logic and steps too. All the images worked to different degrees, but my favoutite was the tower and the berry bush. Merry Christmas, stay healthy and safe and have a fabulous 2022. Phil
Liking the new format Dave, I think folks will find it really interesting, and learn something, from seeing you compose your shot, and take it right through to finished edit.
I remember going to Parys Mountain as a 15 yr old school kid. We were on a geology field trip and camped for a week I think it was near Llygwi. That was way back in the late 70's. Great video, thanks.
The new format works really great. Not having B roll footage frees up the content I feel and makes for a much more concise video. The drone footage adds context and location which is all we need. The details on how you capture and process your images is real gold. Thanks for doing this. 👍👍
Thanks a lot Kevin. Especially your feedback on the snippets of B-roll. I do think that from time to time it's worth 20 to 30 seconds setting up the context of a location but I will be keeping it mostly to a minimum and trying to stick to the point! 😊👍
Hi Dave, the new format is really engaging and I like it. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts ... and I think some good candidates for your project. Festive greetings to you and Mrs G, and all those you call your own.
Many thanks Keith. Really appreciate you following the channel. I've left the Welsh photographers Facebook group because they started blocking my posts without doing me the courtesy of any feedback so I've set up my own Facebook group in retaliation!! 😂
Excellent video. Finally A video that makes me understand why postprocessing is so important. I don’t like to pass time in the computer but I see that it is something I will need to do if I really want to improve my photography. Thanks
Hi David great new format for the videos especially the lack of advertisements interrupting you 👍I’ve also just joined you in the 4/3 landscape fb group
Excellent David, I loved the lone berry it made a nice change from the lone tree at least nobody else will be there tomorrow to take pictures of it! everything else was a good record of what has happened and is slowly going back to nature, you got a good collection of images and I am sure you will be pleased with those images.... well done.....
Firstly, what a joy to have a Vlog advert free. I particularly like the single berry image and the tower with berries in the foreground. It’s always interesting to see your post processing.
Hello Sue, thank you so much for watching and taking the time to make contact. And I certainly have no plans whatsoever to switch from adverts and sponsorship free videos 😊👍
I quite like the new format Dave giving an insight into your thought processes is interesting. I usually visit Parys Mountain in the winter but when it's wet at Rhyd Ddu! I usually end up shooting abstracts around the colour banding areas which works well even on dull days and I love the area down the bottom of the quarry. On the odd occasion when the sun has broke through the colours are really fantastic. I was impressed by the level of consideration you gave to that lone berry
Hi Peter, you're quite right the colour banding works well for close-ups and as it happens I have a friend who recently gained an RPS distinction with 20 images of just that subject! 😊👍
Excellent video, once again, and it's given me the hankering to try dodging and burning, which I've never tried before. I usually work straight out of camera as much as possible, but the steep valleys and rock formations round here throw up a challenge to that ethos, with all the light and shade they create. When you announced this project last week, I immediately wondered if you'd rock up on Parys Mountain at some point: and here you are! I have never been, but first became aware of it in the 1980s BBC documentary "The Celts", and always hankered to visit. Thanks for the pointers on when the best times and conditions for photography at Parys Mountain are. I'd hate to trapess all the way there, at the wrong time and without checking the weather forecast, to boot. The photography pointers are very useful for me, too, as part of my Miura peninsula project will be the abandoned tuff quarries at Mount Takatoriyama, which I've never quite managed to do justice to, as yet. I don't know what my fascination for mines and quarries is - maybe memories of childhood summers in Clwyd, visiting relatives who lived in the shadow of the quarry at Dyserth. All the best, Johnny in Japan.
Great work as always Mate. It's very interesting to see your workflow and I'm finding the new format of your channel a great resource. Happy New Year Mate and take care, 👍📸
It looked a good but cold day at Parys with some good results and well spotted on the lone berry. Thanks for the tip on Pro-Contrast, I must try it out.
Cheers Iain. The pro contrast can be a bit much if you use it globally but to centre the viewer's attention on a specific area it comes in quite handy 😊👍
Hello Gethin, thank you so much for watching and I really hope my channel will be helpful to you. As you will see there are lots of Anglesey locations and close by on the mainland. Oh, and if you ever spot me out and about with a camera do come and say hello. 😊👍
@@DGriffGallery hy thare will do 👍 ime working my way thru yore videos learning as i go 👌 were lucky to live in such a beutiful place so much on our doorstep keep up the great work 👍
Lovely to watch this after going on holiday here this year. I’ve only recently taken up photography and it’s really interesting to be walked through your thoughts behind your images and editing. Thanks for the video I’ve subscribed and looking forward to seeing more updates and a return to Anglesey 👍
Well spotted and executed image of the berry Dave. I visited Pary mountain a few years back and it's a great location, which you have inspired me to revisit. I enjoy watching your approach to post processing, because I have always admired your finished images - excellent. I think the magazine format will work out fine. Seasons greetings to you and Mrs G. Kind regards - Robin
Hi Robin, thanks so much for watching and your generous support as always. You really should come back and visit again, let me know if you do it might be possible to say hello in person 😊👍
Damn...I learnt so much from this one Dave. Midnight here and I couldn't stop watching. I had no idea that Vivesa did that,thanks for enlightening me. Gorgeous work as per usual. I have taken inspiration from the countless vids of yours that I have studied and now try to emulate your 3d d&b effects, slowly achieving the desired depth so another huge thankyou for aiding my development as an editor. All the best wishes from myself to you and yours and a restful Christmas.
Cheers Gary, keep working on the 3-D effect. If you keep that sort of thing in mind it really helps give your processing a direction as you work on an image 😊👍
Enjoyed the vlog Dave. A good explenation of the processing and inmideatly showing the end result works very wel. I am impressed you take such good images in the middle of the day, under such sircomstances. Thnx.
Many thanks for watching and your support as always. I really appreciate it. I've always felt that photographers place false limitations upon themselves if they feel they have to keep to each end of the day to take advantage of the light. Many a good photograph has been made outside of golden and blue hours 😊👍
Got to say that i like the style of the vlog with a mix of shooting and editing and hearing your thoughts on the editing process. The berry image turned out nice, as did the image of the tower at 19:50. Enjoyed this one mate :-) , Take care!
That was fascinating following your thought processes on each image. The "berry over the river" is a wonderful image - how on earth did you spot a single berry ?!!. As for Parys, I find this place fascinatingly frustrating as there is so much colour and texture competing with each other and then the inevitable sky is rarely cooperative. I was delighted to see it took a whole lot of your significant skills and experience to capture the essence of the place. A very informative vid DG. Now i had better watch it again to see if I can pinch some processing tips :)
Cheers Toby, really appreciate your feedback. And I really hope you can get a few processing tips from it as there is a large part of the point of me making videos in this new format 😊👍
One of the best bits of non-photography photography kit I have is a sit-mat. They weigh next to nothing and cost less than fiver. Best thing I've got in my photo kit (according to my knees).
Okay Ian, don't rub it in!! I always carry a sit-mat and a brolly, but I'd been clearing rubbish out of my camera bag and forgot to put them back in! 😂👍
I'm always amazed by how you "see" an image, or the potential for an image. That one of the single berry is a case in point. How many people would have failed to notice that? So simple, so beautiful, yet it tells a story about the passing of the season. Super work. - Malcolm
The Ford at the River is very overgrown remember it a open road. It's like a other planet at parys mountain, remember going there years ago at this time of year and the colors were amazing. Got to go few feet into one of the underground mines at the time as there were a professional potholing team there at the time. ( rather them than me 6 ft in was all I could do) they were there before a TV show was to film there not sure of name now but Dr Alice Roberts was in it from Time Team.
Yes, the mill and cottage were abandoned about 30 years ago and the road ceased to be maintained since then. Although you wouldn't believe the number of people who drive down there and get stuck because of Google Maps! 😊👍
Hello Ray, actually that's a very good question and I did consider it, but I felt that the nice texture in the water deserved a bigger showcase and as I don't do a lot of photography with large areas of negative space I thought it would make a nice change 😊👍
Nice shots Dave, especially Parys Mountain. I tried in when in Anglesey but it was a dull day and I wasn't happy with the results. The sunny sidelight makes a big difference. Also, surprised you didn't add your signature deep vignette to the Hawthorne berry shot to push us into the centre.
Hi Alan, well spotted on the final image vignette. I felt it worked better without one in this instance although I did darken the opposite corners of bottom left and top right. I'll probably talk more about vignettes in a little more detail in a future video 😊👍
After your last video I’m re-reading the book I bought on the original NIK software so I appreciated the visual examples this time. I’ll have a play with my versions of the two and see if I think it’s worth updating. I really liked the tower shot, it’ll be interesting to see if it makes the final cut. Nadolig llawen!
Many is the time i have been to Parys mountain. Absolutely, none of the pictures i took conveyed the dramatic look of the place. In the right weather conditions, the place is quite eerie.
Nice video David, I really liked the last image in particular but they were all very good. It was interesting to hear your thought process of each RAW file before showing the end result. The new video format is off and running now 👍🏻 Anyway… I suppose I should get back to the day job!
Hi Richard, thanks so much for watching and taking the time to get in touch. I must admit I am enjoying the production process for my new format and hopefully will be able to keep up with new content as a result of it 😊👍
Hello David, another video from you I really enjoyed, thank you very much. Regarding the gear head you used. I think it is a Benro, but which one? I am in the market for one.
Hi, many thanks for watching really glad you enjoyed it. Also, thank you for taking the time to make contact. You will find full details of the geared head I'm using along with all of my other stuff on this page which I try to keep us up-to-date as possible: dgriff.gallery/gear/ 😊👍
I was going to make this comment on your last video, but it applies to this one as well. You break down your process between 1) capturing pixels and 2) processing them. To be honest, I am intimidated by the processing part because I thought Lightroom would be sufficient for me and that is why I have the photography subscription. Of course, that does include Photoshop. You utilize layers and add-in applications to Photoshop (and I assume Lightroom as well). I will continue to subscribe to your channel to observe your use of focus stacking while capturing pixels, and the use of layers while processing. It's just that I am not worthy.
Hello David, thank you so much for watching and being good enough to take the time to make contact. Firstly, though, I have to take issue with you insofar as any discussion about worthiness goes. That is patiently untrue, and it is simply a matter of learning by slow steps and assimilating information and techniques which will assist you with processing. In much the same way that someone learns to drive a car, or indeed, handle a camera. Think back to your first time and how strange it all seemed and consider how over a period of time familiarity and practice bring it all together and before you know it it is all second nature. Secondly, let's talk specifically about processing. You make a very good point in that I do make use of additional tools and techniques which on the face of it fall outside of the options built-in to Lightroom in Photoshop. However, a very simple rebuttal to any suggestion that they are necessary, or to a large degree offer results unobtainable by those primary applications is completely untrue. There is, with the sole exception of noise reduction algorithms, nothing at all which I do with my particular processing workflow which cannot be achieved without those additional applications. The only reason I choose to use those is because they make it much quicker and much easier, but they do not offer anything which otherwise couldn't be achieved. I really hope this helps to clarify my processing approach for you, and I really hope that I can encourage you to have more confidence in your ability. Not necessarily as it stands with regards to processing but that with a positive attitude towards learning there is nothing whatsoever to prevent you from getting to whatever level you would like to, and feel comfortable with. 😊👍
For me this is the perfect type of vlog for photography. Out on the shoot firstly going through your thought processes then back home showing us how you get the final results. Also the fact you don't go into too much detail with the editing just what you want to change and what you did but without showing absolutely everything. That can be a bit laborious. So all in all Dave a great format and as always I love your editing style. The final images were all excellent. The one with the berry shows what a keen eye you have to even see the possibilities of a photo 👍
Cheers Michael, many thanks for your very generous feedback. So glad you're enjoying the new channel format. 😊👍
I declare you the highest of youtube and photography royalty, not only are you an awesome photographer, you're a great no nonsense say it as it is bloke (the world needs more like you) and to top that off, no mood and larrning killing adverts of your channel, top work, thank you for sharing your great content with us all 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Marcus, you are far too kind, but I really appreciate your very generous feedback. And many thanks for taking the time to make contact. 😊👍
Loving the new approach - no ads and no sponsors is also a plus. Thanks for taking us through the processing logic and steps too. All the images worked to different degrees, but my favoutite was the tower and the berry bush. Merry Christmas, stay healthy and safe and have a fabulous 2022. Phil
Cheers Phil 😊👍
That landscape David is awesome.
Love the way you talked us through the process of taking the images.
Again brilliant
Cheers Gary 😊👍
I like how you have a bit of info in the setup and then a bit of info into the processing. Top images David.
Thanks a lot Mark, good to know that you're enjoying the new channel format. 😊👍
You have some of the most beautiful surrounding. Never get bored!
Cheers Jimmy. One day I'm going to have to convince you to visit!! 😊👍
Liking the new format Dave, I think folks will find it really interesting, and learn something, from seeing you compose your shot, and take it right through to finished edit.
Cheers mate. To be fair it's largely the excuse of a lazy videographer!! 😂👍
Lovely update Mr G!... Thanks again for taking the time to share your artistic journey with us.
Cheers John, always appreciate your generous support 😊👍
I remember going to Parys Mountain as a 15 yr old school kid. We were on a geology field trip and camped for a week I think it was near Llygwi. That was way back in the late 70's. Great video, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed them; the video and your visit back in the day. My school trips were far less inspiring! 😊👍
Shared on Facebook, for members of the Melbourne Photographic Society. The latest shot of Idwal in the fog would be of great
The new format works really great. Not having B roll footage frees up the content I feel and makes for a much more concise video. The drone footage adds context and location which is all we need. The details on how you capture and process your images is real gold. Thanks for doing this. 👍👍
Thanks a lot Kevin. Especially your feedback on the snippets of B-roll. I do think that from time to time it's worth 20 to 30 seconds setting up the context of a location but I will be keeping it mostly to a minimum and trying to stick to the point! 😊👍
As ever Dave - beautiful 👌👌
Cheers Paul, so glad you enjoyed it 😊👍
Hi Dave, the new format is really engaging and I like it. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts ... and I think some good candidates for your project. Festive greetings to you and Mrs G, and all those you call your own.
Hi Steve, thanks as always for tuning in and the best to you and yours also 😊👍
Thanks, it is fascinating watching your process creating these amazing pictures 👍
Hello Neal, thanks so much for watching and I really appreciate your feedback 😊👍
Really enjoyed this one, very informative and the pick of the bunch for me was the tower shot.
Many thanks Keith. Really appreciate you following the channel. I've left the Welsh photographers Facebook group because they started blocking my posts without doing me the courtesy of any feedback so I've set up my own Facebook group in retaliation!! 😂
Loved the image of the bush think my favourite but love the rest great vlog again Burt
Many thanks as always for your support, Burt 😊👍
Not sponsored and no adverts? Beautiful! Oh, and the video and images aren't so bad either. :)
Thanks a lot Gary, really appreciate you watching and taking the time to comment 😊👍
That was brilliant David, fascinating watching your thoughts on how you approach your editing and the final results were just amazing
Many thanks Jim, so glad you enjoyed it. And thanks a lot for taking the time to comment 😊👍
Thanks David, appreciated. Love the images and I'm very envious of the Paramo jacket!
Cheers Craig. The coat is by a country mile the best I have ever had. Well worth blowing through my daughter's inheritance on it! 😁👍
Excellent video. Finally A video that makes me understand why postprocessing is so important. I don’t like to pass time in the computer but I see that it is something I will need to do if I really want to improve my photography. Thanks
Keep at it. Once you get used to the technicalities you'll enjoy the creative expression it offers your photography 😊👍
Great to see you making the most of whats on your doorstep:)
Cheers. 😊👍
Hi David great new format for the videos especially the lack of advertisements interrupting you 👍I’ve also just joined you in the 4/3 landscape fb group
Cheers Phil, really appreciate you joining in. Hopefully it will be interesting for all 😊👍
Excellent David, I loved the lone berry it made a nice change from the lone tree at least nobody else will be there tomorrow to take pictures of it! everything else was a good record of what has happened and is slowly going back to nature, you got a good collection of images and I am sure you will be pleased with those images.... well done.....
Cheers Des, always appreciate your very generous feedback 😊👍
Firstly, what a joy to have a Vlog advert free. I particularly like the single berry image and the tower with berries in the foreground. It’s always interesting to see your post processing.
Hello Sue, thank you so much for watching and taking the time to make contact. And I certainly have no plans whatsoever to switch from adverts and sponsorship free videos 😊👍
I quite like the new format Dave giving an insight into your thought processes is interesting. I usually visit Parys Mountain in the winter but when it's wet at Rhyd Ddu! I usually end up shooting abstracts around the colour banding areas which works well even on dull days and I love the area down the bottom of the quarry. On the odd occasion when the sun has broke through the colours are really fantastic. I was impressed by the level of consideration you gave to that lone berry
Hi Peter, you're quite right the colour banding works well for close-ups and as it happens I have a friend who recently gained an RPS distinction with 20 images of just that subject! 😊👍
Excellent video, once again, and it's given me the hankering to try dodging and burning, which I've never tried before. I usually work straight out of camera as much as possible, but the steep valleys and rock formations round here throw up a challenge to that ethos, with all the light and shade they create. When you announced this project last week, I immediately wondered if you'd rock up on Parys Mountain at some point: and here you are! I have never been, but first became aware of it in the 1980s BBC documentary "The Celts", and always hankered to visit. Thanks for the pointers on when the best times and conditions for photography at Parys Mountain are. I'd hate to trapess all the way there, at the wrong time and without checking the weather forecast, to boot. The photography pointers are very useful for me, too, as part of my Miura peninsula project will be the abandoned tuff quarries at Mount Takatoriyama, which I've never quite managed to do justice to, as yet. I don't know what my fascination for mines and quarries is - maybe memories of childhood summers in Clwyd, visiting relatives who lived in the shadow of the quarry at Dyserth. All the best, Johnny in Japan.
Hi Johnny, dodging and burning is the secret sauce of landscapes. Read any authoritative piece on Ansel Adams for more! 😊👍
Great work as always Mate. It's very interesting to see your workflow and I'm finding the new format of your channel a great resource.
Happy New Year Mate and take care, 👍📸
Cheers mate. Same to you and yours 😊👍
It looked a good but cold day at Parys with some good results and well spotted on the lone berry. Thanks for the tip on Pro-Contrast, I must try it out.
Cheers Iain. The pro contrast can be a bit much if you use it globally but to centre the viewer's attention on a specific area it comes in quite handy 😊👍
I live on anglesey and ime taking an interest in photography glad i found yore chanell great work and its helping me to learn take beter pictures 👍
Hello Gethin, thank you so much for watching and I really hope my channel will be helpful to you. As you will see there are lots of Anglesey locations and close by on the mainland. Oh, and if you ever spot me out and about with a camera do come and say hello. 😊👍
@@DGriffGallery hy thare will do 👍 ime working my way thru yore videos learning as i go 👌 were lucky to live in such a beutiful place so much on our doorstep keep up the great work 👍
Lovely to watch this after going on holiday here this year. I’ve only recently taken up photography and it’s really interesting to be walked through your thoughts behind your images and editing. Thanks for the video I’ve subscribed and looking forward to seeing more updates and a return to Anglesey 👍
Thanks so much for subscribing. Hope to keep you entertained and hope you'll come back this way again 😊👍
Well spotted and executed image of the berry Dave. I visited Pary mountain a few years back and it's a great location, which you have inspired me to revisit. I enjoy watching your approach to post processing, because I have always admired your finished images - excellent. I think the magazine format will work out fine. Seasons greetings to you and Mrs G. Kind regards - Robin
Hi Robin, thanks so much for watching and your generous support as always. You really should come back and visit again, let me know if you do it might be possible to say hello in person 😊👍
Stunning video David really enjoyed this took Maisy to the coper mine hill we really enjoyed it 😃
You must let me know next time you're in this neck of the woods. About time we got together! 😊👍
@@DGriffGallery 100 percent your knowledge of the area is brilliant I am like a lost soul lol
Great work Mr Griff its working on me the format
Great to hear! 😊👍
Damn...I learnt so much from this one Dave. Midnight here and I couldn't stop watching. I had no idea that Vivesa did that,thanks for enlightening me. Gorgeous work as per usual. I have taken inspiration from the countless vids of yours that I have studied and now try to emulate your 3d d&b effects, slowly achieving the desired depth so another huge thankyou for aiding my development as an editor. All the best wishes from myself to you and yours and a restful Christmas.
Cheers Gary, keep working on the 3-D effect. If you keep that sort of thing in mind it really helps give your processing a direction as you work on an image 😊👍
Enjoyed the vlog Dave. A good explenation of the processing and inmideatly showing the end result works very wel. I am impressed you take such good images in the middle of the day, under such sircomstances. Thnx.
Many thanks for watching and your support as always. I really appreciate it. I've always felt that photographers place false limitations upon themselves if they feel they have to keep to each end of the day to take advantage of the light. Many a good photograph has been made outside of golden and blue hours 😊👍
Got to say that i like the style of the vlog with a mix of shooting and editing and hearing your thoughts on the editing process. The berry image turned out nice, as did the image of the tower at 19:50. Enjoyed this one mate :-) , Take care!
Thanks a lot, Lee. Really appreciate you tuning in and so glad you enjoyed it 😊👍
That was fascinating following your thought processes on each image. The "berry over the river" is a wonderful image - how on earth did you spot a single berry ?!!. As for Parys, I find this place fascinatingly frustrating as there is so much colour and texture competing with each other and then the inevitable sky is rarely cooperative. I was delighted to see it took a whole lot of your significant skills and experience to capture the essence of the place. A very informative vid DG. Now i had better watch it again to see if I can pinch some processing tips :)
Cheers Toby, really appreciate your feedback. And I really hope you can get a few processing tips from it as there is a large part of the point of me making videos in this new format 😊👍
One of the best bits of non-photography photography kit I have is a sit-mat. They weigh next to nothing and cost less than fiver. Best thing I've got in my photo kit (according to my knees).
Okay Ian, don't rub it in!! I always carry a sit-mat and a brolly, but I'd been clearing rubbish out of my camera bag and forgot to put them back in! 😂👍
I'm always amazed by how you "see" an image, or the potential for an image. That one of the single berry is a case in point. How many people would have failed to notice that? So simple, so beautiful, yet it tells a story about the passing of the season. Super work. - Malcolm
Hello Malcolm, thank you so much for your very kind feedback. I really appreciate it. So glad you enjoyed this video 😊👍
The Ford at the River is very overgrown remember it a open road.
It's like a other planet at parys mountain, remember going there years ago at this time of year and the colors were amazing. Got to go few feet into one of the underground mines at the time as there were a professional potholing team there at the time. ( rather them than me 6 ft in was all I could do) they were there before a TV show was to film there not sure of name now but Dr Alice Roberts was in it from Time Team.
Yes, the mill and cottage were abandoned about 30 years ago and the road ceased to be maintained since then. Although you wouldn't believe the number of people who drive down there and get stuck because of Google Maps! 😊👍
Another interesting and entertaining vlog. I wonder if you considered cropping the berry shot to a square format? Hwyl.
Hello Ray, actually that's a very good question and I did consider it, but I felt that the nice texture in the water deserved a bigger showcase and as I don't do a lot of photography with large areas of negative space I thought it would make a nice change 😊👍
Nice shots Dave, especially Parys Mountain. I tried in when in Anglesey but it was a dull day and I wasn't happy with the results. The sunny sidelight makes a big difference. Also, surprised you didn't add your signature deep vignette to the Hawthorne berry shot to push us into the centre.
Hi Alan, well spotted on the final image vignette. I felt it worked better without one in this instance although I did darken the opposite corners of bottom left and top right. I'll probably talk more about vignettes in a little more detail in a future video 😊👍
After your last video I’m re-reading the book I bought on the original NIK software so I appreciated the visual examples this time. I’ll have a play with my versions of the two and see if I think it’s worth updating. I really liked the tower shot, it’ll be interesting to see if it makes the final cut. Nadolig llawen!
Diolch mate 😊👍
Many is the time i have been to Parys mountain. Absolutely, none of the pictures i took conveyed the dramatic look of the place. In the right weather conditions, the place is quite eerie.
Hi John, I've also found it to be a tough location to really capture properly 😊👍
Nice video David, I really liked the last image in particular but they were all very good. It was interesting to hear your thought process of each RAW file before showing the end result. The new video format is off and running now 👍🏻 Anyway… I suppose I should get back to the day job!
Hi Richard, thanks so much for watching and taking the time to get in touch. I must admit I am enjoying the production process for my new format and hopefully will be able to keep up with new content as a result of it 😊👍
Hello David, another video from you I really enjoyed, thank you very much.
Regarding the gear head you used. I think it is a Benro, but which one? I am in the market for one.
Hi, many thanks for watching really glad you enjoyed it. Also, thank you for taking the time to make contact. You will find full details of the geared head I'm using along with all of my other stuff on this page which I try to keep us up-to-date as possible: dgriff.gallery/gear/ 😊👍
I was going to make this comment on your last video, but it applies to this one as well. You break down your process between 1) capturing pixels and 2) processing them. To be honest, I am intimidated by the processing part because I thought Lightroom would be sufficient for me and that is why I have the photography subscription. Of course, that does include Photoshop. You utilize layers and add-in applications to Photoshop (and I assume Lightroom as well). I will continue to subscribe to your channel to observe your use of focus stacking while capturing pixels, and the use of layers while processing. It's just that I am not worthy.
Hello David, thank you so much for watching and being good enough to take the time to make contact.
Firstly, though, I have to take issue with you insofar as any discussion about worthiness goes. That is patiently untrue, and it is simply a matter of learning by slow steps and assimilating information and techniques which will assist you with processing. In much the same way that someone learns to drive a car, or indeed, handle a camera. Think back to your first time and how strange it all seemed and consider how over a period of time familiarity and practice bring it all together and before you know it it is all second nature.
Secondly, let's talk specifically about processing. You make a very good point in that I do make use of additional tools and techniques which on the face of it fall outside of the options built-in to Lightroom in Photoshop. However, a very simple rebuttal to any suggestion that they are necessary, or to a large degree offer results unobtainable by those primary applications is completely untrue. There is, with the sole exception of noise reduction algorithms, nothing at all which I do with my particular processing workflow which cannot be achieved without those additional applications. The only reason I choose to use those is because they make it much quicker and much easier, but they do not offer anything which otherwise couldn't be achieved.
I really hope this helps to clarify my processing approach for you, and I really hope that I can encourage you to have more confidence in your ability. Not necessarily as it stands with regards to processing but that with a positive attitude towards learning there is nothing whatsoever to prevent you from getting to whatever level you would like to, and feel comfortable with. 😊👍